A Forbes Gift Certificate — 
makes a thoughtful gift for your gardening friends 
Brighten up a friend’s garden year by sending a Forbes Gift 
Certificate. This will be made out for any amount you may wish to 
give. It covers all garden items we offer which are in season at the 
time the certificate is used in making a selection. 
Biennial Plants for Fall Planting 
Here are nicely rooted plants of biennial 
flowers, one dozen to a flat, all ready to set 
out in your garden bed now. "And priced about 
half-way between flat-grown annuals and 
pot-grown perennials. Campanulas (Cup-and- 
Saucer), Foxgloves and Sweet 
Williams. See page 16. 
Plant Oriental Poppies Now 
We offer started plants of eleven varieties of Oriental Poppies, 
already established and growing on in 6-inch pots. It’s easy to 
slit the pot off and set the soil ball in a sunny bed in your garden 
to bloom in May and Ju une. These make beautiful garden accents. 
See page 16. 
To help you find the items listed 
African Violets 
Biennial Flower Plants. . ; 
Books, Gardening. . Order form 
Bulbs, Flowering 
Chrysanthemums.... 
Clovers 
Cover Crops 
Crocus Bulbs . 
Culture, Daffodil and 
Tulip 3rd Cov. 
Daffodil Bulbs 5 
Delivery Area 
Fertilizers 
Field Seeds. . , 
Flower Seeds for Fall... 
Gift Certificates 
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Ground Coverain.. a ereisiieete 
House Plants 
Hyacinth Bulbs..... 
Hyacinth Glasses 
Indoor Bulbs 
Lilies, Hardy Garden 
Miscellaneous Bulbs 
Pebbles, Pearl Chips. .Order form 
Peony plants (in pots).. .3rd Cov. 
Poppy plants (in pots) 
Roses, Climbing (in pots) 
Roses, Floribunda (in pots). .10,11 
Roses, Hybrid Tea (in pots) . .8-10 
Strawberry Plants, Potted 
Tulip Bulbs 
Wild Bird Seed 
Colored Pictures. We show in natural color at both Hanover and 
Millburn all Tulips, Daffodils, Hyacinths, Lilies and other Spring 
flowers, as well as our selection of 67 top Roses for 1953. 
Annual Flower Seeds for Fall Planting. Any of these may be sown 
Jate for earliest bloom next year: Alyssum, Calendula, Callopsis, 
Centurea, Clarkia, Cleome, Cosmos, Dianthus, Eschscholtzia, 
Gypsophila, Larkspur, Nigella, Poppy, Snapdragons, Sweet Peas. 
DON’T BUY DORMANT ROSES FOR FALL PLANTING 
READ THIS— By ordering Forbes Pot Grown Roses NOW for setting out 
in your garden next April you'll avoid all risk of winter loss. We'll 
reserve your Roses, all 2-year-old, No. 1 grade, field-grown specially for us 
by the leading quality rose grower of the northwest. Each, grown on out- 
doors from an early start, will be thoroughly rooted in a 7 x 9-inch pot, 
fully alive, in leaf and ready to give full bloom from June on. All are the 
fmest quality and best varieties, growing vigorously when you get them. 
Hybrid Tea, Peace 
For Rose descriptions and prices see pages 8 to 11 
